Haven’t you ever wondered what it would be like if every time you felt like you were thirsty had to go find somewhere miles away from your home to drink water that is not clean and probably contaminated with all sorts of diseases, bodily fluids, etc.? For these people who live in a shantytown in Bombay it is an everyday activity. This picture shows how close clean drinking water is but how poor the people are who can’t afford to have the running water.
photograph by Sebastiao Salgado
In India many places have running water. This is an overstatement because the running water usually lasts only about an hour. After that for the rest of the day, no one gets water. Anyone who wants water has to wake up the moment the water is turned on and the water is used up within the hour leaving everything that had not been taken care of, for the next day (BBC News).
WORKS CITED
Salgado, Sebastiao. Photograph. Migrations: Humanity in Transition. Aperture. New York, 2000. 399. Print.
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